Sigh…

Ed’s at it again. Rather than waste my time with a long rebuttal, let me just say this: I generally prefer to spend my time explaining technical things that help people understand Exchange better rather than pointing out shortcomings in competing products. I could go on at length about what’s wrong with Notes and Domino, but why bother? So, it bothers me when Ed takes an explanatory technical article and twists it around in an attempt to make his competitive point, but hey, he’s preaching to a choir of Notes admins, so I shouldn’t be surprised.
Well, OK, just one rebuttal point: since the column was on geoclustering, I didn’t mention the many software replication products [e.g. DoubleTake] that are being used to provide geographically distributed DR without geoclustering; I also didn’t mention ballpark hot dogs, ‘57 Chevrolet Bel Air coupes, or lots of other things that don’t relate to geoclustering. Ed’s guilty of claiming that there’s no other way to solve the problem, which isn’t what I said. These replication products have their own limitations, as does Domino replication, but they’re not germane to a column on geoclustering, so I didn’t mention them.
Update: edited to fix a typo and to turn comments back on. Ecto sometimes randomly changes the “allow comments” and “format line breaks” flags between posts, and I don’t always catch it.